Bluebird

For a debut novel, this is fantastic. The characters, the rep, the fast-paced action, the cover, and more!? Just read it already! The lesbian protag definitely hooked me, but the rest of the book kept me glued to the pages. It's a fairly decent length but the plot moves along well, and despite some bumps in the road and places where the narrative feels a little rough, I truly enjoyed this debut and will absolutely keep an eye on Pierlot.

There's a lot (!!!) of dialogue of this nature:

???That easy? Seriously????
???I???m always serious. Can???t you tell???? He gestures to his smarmy smirk. ???This is my serious face.???

...and if that's your kind of dialogue/humour and you are excited about lesbian gunslingers in space, go read this immediately.

It's not quite my style, so my 3 stars are very, very subjectively based on that. But I'm all in for more queer female characters in sff novels.

Very nice and easy to get through. I enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed this book. Great relationships all around, platonic as well as romantic, and the fast-paced space-opera shenanigans were so much fun. Also, lovely prose:

No light lives down here, only the rarest and faintest of flickers . . .